Psalm 69:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Job 17:6

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

Joel 1:13

Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

Isaiah 22:12

In that day the Lord God of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;

Isaiah 20:2

at that time the Lord had spoken by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your loins and take off your shoes from your feet,” and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot —

Deuteronomy 28:37

And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.

Psalm 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.